Summary: A connecting rod broke on the Joads car, and since Ma refused to split up the family, they stop at a campsite. Tom and Casy go off to find a new rod at a junkyard where they find a man with only one eye who feels sorry for himself because of his ‘tragic’ loss. Tom calls him pathetic. They find a connecting rod and buy that and a socket wrench. After the truck is fixed, they head back to camp to find the family. The campsite tries to swindle money out of them for trying to park in the campsite, so instead they park along the road. A man laughs at Pa for saying their heading to California because there isn’t really work there.
Themes:
Strength of women
Meaning of family
People vs. Moloch
People:
The one eyed man – he tries to give up on life just because he lost an eye.
Joad Family
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